Editing Maurice Papon (section)

===The ''Canard enchaîné'' leaks===

On 6 May 1981, ''[[Le Canard enchaîné]]'' newspaper published an article, "Papon, aide de camps. Quand un ministre de Giscard faisait déporter des juifs" ("Papon, [[Aide-de-camp|aide of camps]]: When one of Giscard's ministers deported the Jews"). It also made public several documents that had been signed by Papon and showed his responsibility in the deportation of 1,690 Jews of Bordeaux to Drancy from 1942–44.<ref name="ChronoFig">[http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/20070217.WWW000000083_les_grandes_dates_de_l_affaire_papon.html The important dates of the Papon Affair], ''[[Le Figaro]]'', 17 February 2007. {{in lang|fr}}</ref> The documents had been provided to the newspaper by one of the survivors of Papon's raid, Michel Slitinsky (1925–2012). Slitinsky had received them from historian Michel Bergés, who had discovered them in February 1981 in the department's archives.<ref name="Express">[http://www.lexpress.fr/info/france/dossier/papon/dossier.asp?ida=408819 Les Français et Vichy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070109021241/http://www.lexpress.fr/info/france/dossier/papon/dossier.asp?ida=408819|date=9 January 2007}}, ''[[L'Express (France)|L'Express]]'', 2 October 1997. {{in lang|fr}}</ref> The publication of the 6 May article occurred four days before the second round of the [[1981 French presidential election|presidential election]], opposing candidate [[François Mitterrand]], who would win the race, and incumbent president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing under whom Papon was a cabinet minister.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}